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It hit me full force. At that instant all the horror flooded back into my mind... seeing my friends being shot at by laser weapons in the jungle... Bazeelia’s hair on fire... surviving it all, only to find I was now an alien... the way I’d been treated by Starrick and the other doctors... Kaylan and the guards... being subjected to all the continuous testing and being locked up with no way of contacting anyone... no hope of getting back home... never seeing my friends again...
I can’t believe it. It’s like my dreams all went up in smoke and I have to try to get back to where I was, where I was normal and not an alien and I know that it’s impossible.
I stumbled along through the underbrush.
It’s too late now. I am what I am. Why did I listen to Oliana and Kaliya? Why didn’t I stay ho
